Looking at Film from Every Angle

35th Academy Awards (1962): The Ceremony

Nominations Announcement

Nominations Announcement Date: Monday, February 25, 1963

Ceremony Details

Awards Ceremony Date/Time: Monday, April 8, 1963, 7:00pm
Location: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica
Televised On: ABC
Host: Frank Sinatra
Length: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Presenters

Sound Mixing: Shelley Winters
Special Effects: Shelley Winters
Film Editing: Karl Malden
Documentary Short Subject: Miyoshi Umeki
Documentary Feature: Miyoshi Umeki
Music: Substantially Original Score: Ginger Rogers
Music: Adaptation or Treatment Score: Ginger Rogers
Supporting Actor: Rita Moreno
Animated Short Film: Van Heflin
Live Action Short Film: Van Heflin
Costume Design: Audrey Hepburn (on film), Eva Marie Saint (NOTE: Both Black-and-White and Color awards presented together)
Supporting Actress: George Chakiris
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Steve Broidy: Frank Sinatra
Foreign Language Film: Wendell Corey
Production Design: Gene Kelly (NOTE: Both Black-and-White and Color awards presented together)
Cinematography: Donna Reed (NOTE: Both Black-and-White and Color awards presented together)
Original Song: Frank Sinatra
Directing: Joan Crawford
Writing: Adapted Screenplay: Bette Davis
Writing: Original Screenplay: Bette Davis
Actor: Sophia Loren
Actress: Maximilian Schell
Picture: Olivia de Havilland
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Scientific & Technical Awards: (NOTE: No record of these awards being given out.)

Previous Acting & Directing Winners

The tradition of prior acting winners returning the subsequent year to present the opposite-gender category is a long one. Each year, we look to see whether the prior winners returned. There was an intermittent tradition where the prior directing winner returned as well, but this was a rare occurrence.

Actor – Maximilian Schell: Yes
Actress – Sophia Loren: Yes
Supporting Actor – George Chakiris: Yes
Supporting Actress – Rita Moreno: Yes
Directing – Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins: No

Song Performances

Days of Wine and Roses: Robert Goulet (NOTE: All songs included in a medley)
Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me): Robert Goulet (NOTE: All songs included in a medley)
Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance): Robert Goulet (NOTE: All songs included in a medley)
Tender Is the Night: Robert Goulet (NOTE: All songs included in a medley)
Walk on the Wild Side: Robert Goulet (NOTE: All songs included in a medley)

Original Song Film Performers

Was the song performed at the Oscars by the same individuals who performed it in the film?

Days of Wine and Roses: No (Performed in the Film by: Chorus)
Love Song from Mutiny on the Bounty (Follow Me): No (Performed in the Film by: Chorus)
Song from Two for the Seesaw (Second Chance): No (Performed in the Film by: Jackie Cain)
Tender Is the Night: No (Performed in the Film by: Chorus)
Walk on the Wild Side: No (Performed in the Film by: Brook Benton)

Ceremony Production Staff

Announcer: Hank Simms
Conductor / Musical Arranger: Alfred Newman
Director: Richard Dunlap
Producer: Arthur Freed, Richard Dunlap (ABC)
Writer: Tom Adair, Jim Alladrice, Ernest Chambers, Richard Dunlap, Burton Goodman, Ralph Goodman, Dave Harmon, Hal Kanter, John Fenton Murray, Norman Paul